The wall and the city / Il muro e la città / Le mur et la ville

The book explores the intersections between the material artifact ‘wall’ and its strategic and tactical relevance in the contemporary city. It deals with urban spatiality, public places, trajectories, and territoriality; visibility, urban surfaces, and urban visual landscape; materiality and immateriality; governmental and corporate strategies in the use of walls; writings in public space, graffiti, murals, street art, public art, outdoor advertisement, logos; use of space, right to the city, social practices, social actors, resistance, subcultures.

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Introduzione / Introduction

Béatrice Fraenkel, Actes d’écriture: quand écrire c’est faire

Ella Chmielewska, Writing on the ruins, or graffiti as a design gesture

Lorenzo Tripodi, Towards a vertical urbanism. Space of exposure as a new paradigm for public space

Andrea Mubi Brighenti, Walled urbs to urban walls – and return? On the social life of walls

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